Academies & Institutes
For more information on our institutes and academies, click on the link below.Reading - My Strategy Toolbox
Presenter: Barbara McClanahan
Workshop Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration time: 8:30 am
Registration fee: $175 ($150 for Texas ASCD members)
Dates and Locations:
Please contact our office to schedule this institute at your location.Summary: My
Strategy Toolbox
is a six-hour workshop which defines and reviews the concept of the
strategic teaching of reading, especially content-area reading, from a
metacognitive point of view. The "toolbox" itself is introduced as a
method for helping teachers organize the strategies that they have
already found effective and which they have determined meet the
criteria to be designated a true strategy. The toolbox is flexible and
can be updated periodically, as the teacher finds new effective
strategies and/or removes old, no-longer-used ones. During the
workshop, teachers also have the opportunity to pick up new strategies
from their colleagues. Each strategy card placed in the toolbox
contains a description of the strategy, a research-based rationale for
using it, and an explanation of the procedures for carrying out the
strategy. All strategies are held up to the criterion of the "Crucial
Question: As a direct result of using this strategy, what can my
students do now that they couldn't do before?" Thus assessment is seen
as a critical component of the process. The workshop closes by
directing teachers' thinking toward coaching students to take ownership
of the strategies themselves, thus becoming strategic readers, as well
as developing a systemized method to allow teachers to continue to
share and encourage one another in the use of the toolbox and in
strategic teaching in general.
Barbara
McClanahan is a ten-year
teaching veteran in both regular and special education classes. She has
twice been named Teacher of the Year at Forney Middle School. She
has
Master's in Reading and is a doctoral student at Texas
A&M-Commerce, where she received the 2003 Bill Martin Jr.
Scholarship. She has presented this workshop and other staff
development offerings throughout the state. She also does
interactive book reviews and presentations on the "Orphan Train
Phenomenon" for service organizations. She is the author of "A Question
of Loyalty" published in the December-January 2002 issue of History
Magazine.
She is a member of the Texas State Reading Association, and will serve
as the President-Elect of the Student Council of TSRA at Texas
A&M-Commerce for the upcoming term.
Who Should Attend: Teachers and administrators
Register
by credit card.
To register by purchase order or a check, download a registration form (PDF) or call 1-800-717-2723 ext. 10 for assistance.
